"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in" (Leonard Cohen)
"Ignore all proffered rules and create your own, suitable for what you want to say" (Michael Moorcock)
"Look for your own. Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings." (Andre Gide)
"I want my place, my own place, my true place in the world, my proper sphere, my thing which Nature intended me to perform when she fashioned me thus awry, and which I have vainly sought all my life-time." (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” (Franz Kafka)
"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated" (John Donne)
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” (Robert J. Hanlon)
"Life is beautiful, but the world is hell" (Harold Pinter)
Friday, June 03, 2011
Remembrance of Things Past
maybe not so jolly after all
Today is the second anniversary of me getting attacked ('glassed') in the Jolly Farmer pub, and then banned - unlike my attackers! Make sure that you mark the occasion in your own special way. I have a dream: of a better world where people are put before beer glasses.
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